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CHAPTER IX. 

 Skinning, Preserving, and Mounting Eeptiles 188 



CHAPTER X. 

 Dressing and Softening Skins or Furs as Leather 192 



CHAPTER XI. 

 Relaxing and Cleaning Skins — "Making-up" from Pieces 199 



CHAPTER XII. 



Colouring Bills and Feet of Birds, Bare Skin of Mam- 

 mals, Fishes, etc. — Restoring Shrunken Parts by a Wax 

 Process — Drying and Colouring Ferns, Grasses, Sea- 

 weeds, etc. — "Piece Moulds," and Modelling Fruit in 

 Plaster — Preserving Spiders — Making Skeletons op 

 Animals, Skeleton Leaves, etc. — Polishing Horns, 

 Shells, etc. — Egg Collecting and Preserving — Addi- 

 tional FoRMUL.a:, etc 207 



CHAPTER XIIL 



Cases, Mounts, Shields, Egg Cabinets, Rockwork, Ferns, 

 Grasses, Sea-weeds, etc., for "Fitting-up" 232 



CHAPTER XIV. 



General Remarks on Artistic "Mounting," Modelled 

 Foliage Screens, Lamps, Natural History Jewellery, etc. 249 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Collecting and Preserving Insects 264 



CHAPTER XVI. 



On Natural History Museums, with special reference 

 to a "New System of Pictorial Arrangement of Verte- 

 brates 312 



